06/19/2026
It has been a rough week with very little sleep for our engineers who have been trying to sustain two remote solar sites (El Creston/Ojitos Frios and Sapello) that were damaged last Sunday by lightning. Both sites are power hungry and difficult to get to. The batteries banks, among other gear, were shot. Trouble has been some components were partially damaged but appeared to be working, still, the power was dropping in the early morning .
The high capacity lithium batteries we need aren't coming until next week , so we have been using all we have in stock to hold, but it has been dropping power because the sites need more capacity.
We want to thank local Cary Lane and his crew at Energy Concepts. They just hooked us up with very high end battery systems to help our critical status. We completed Sapello a few hours ago and we will head out at 4AM to the El Crestone mountain to swap batteries there. There will be some down time but it shouldn't be long as we have already replacing everything else.
Thanks to everyone who has been supportive, patient and understanding. You are exactly why we will go out at anytime and do everything we can to ensure your connectivity. We will post more updates tomorrow morning.
